most praised works was the book En El Mar Austral (On the Southern Sea), a tale of a year spent traveling on a whaling boat around the southern tip of Chile and Argentina (Tierra del Fuego) beginning in the town of Punta Arenas in Chile. It describes in detail the scenery and life in the southernmost tip of South America. It does not appear that Mocho ever got within 500 miles of Tierra del Fuego and yet his descriptions are extremely accurate, and the source of his information is still not known. Mocho died on 23 August 1903, just three days short of his 45th birthday; an illness that had troubled him for years eventually causing his death. It is said that "he feared no one and nothing because he had damaged no one and had a pure heart" (as is stated in an edition of En El Mar Austral published in 1960 by The University of Buenos Aires). His last words were "I die fighting" ("muero luchando" in Spanish). His magazine lived on until 1941. Bibliography 1887: Galería de ladrones de la capital 1897: Memorias de un vigilante 1897: Viaje al país de los matreros 1898: En el mar austral 1899: Caras y Caretas 1906: Cuentos de Fray Mocho (posthumous) Further reading En el Mar Austral, The Series of One and a Half Centuries (La Serie del Siglo y Medio), Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires, May, 1960 References External links Caras y caretas magazine 1858 births 1903 deaths Argentine journalists Male journalists Argentine male novelists Mocho Fray People from Buenos Aires 19th-century novelists 19th-century male writers Argentine magazine founders